HesterOerlemans

Oerlemans is a versatile artist who has remained true to the discipline of drawing over the years alongside all the other work she has created. This also applies to the drawings in the collection. They seem to come from an archive of drawings and sketches. A number of these are not drawn with pencil but made with coloured tape. These are studies for chairs which she has executes in balloons at a later stage. The four ceramic works are actually literally based on balloons around which the work has been formed. They are shiny, oily, almost bodily objects. The drawings and ceramic objects prove the idiosyncratic virtuosity Oerlemans undeniably possesses. Wilfulness and originality are qualities which are apparent in all of her works.